Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

The first accurate maps of outbreaks of potato blight — a disease caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans that was responsible for the Irish potato famine between 1845 and 1852 — in ...

The first year the potato blight ravaged through the Irish crop, sparking the start of the famine, is commemorated in "1845: Memento Mori" A new blown-glass exhibit opens in Seattle on Oct 18, 2019, ...

The Irish Famine Museum / Exhibition at St. Stephen's Green in Dublin captures the history and tragedy of the Irish Famine, also known as Ireland's Great Hunger. Between 1845 and 1851 approximately ...

THE GREAT HUNGER (510 pp.)—Cecil Woodham-Smith—Harper & Row ($6.95). Between the Black Death and Buchenwald, Europe saw nothing like it west of Russia. In the five years of Ireland’s Potato Famine ...

A historic potato plant specimen collected by David Moore from the National Botanic Garden in Glasnevin, Ireland showing late-blight disease. In an examination of the genetic material found in ...

Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

Nearly 1 million people died in Ireland during the Great Famine of 1845–1852, which was caused by a fungus that destroyed potato crops. A study published September 9 in PNAS examined calculus, a form ...